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Birth Date: | 1952 10, df=y |
Fields: | social theory, ideology and politics, philosophy of social sciences |
Workplaces: | Massey University Bristol University |
Education: | University of Birmingham (PhD), Bristol University (BA) |
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Doctoral Students: | Seyed Javad Miri |
Known For: | works on postcolonial and postsecular social theory |
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Gregor McLennan (born 21 October 1952) is a British sociologist and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He studied under Stuart Hall at the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies in the 1970s and continued to work with Hall at the Open University during the 1980s, co-editing several key texts on politics, ideology and crime.[1] From 1991 to 1997 he was Head of the Department of Sociology at Massey University. In 1997 he assumed the Established Chair in Sociology at the University of Bristol, where he was also Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies. He is currently Professor Emeritus.
McLennan is known for his works on postcolonialism and postsecularism.[2] [3] He is also a Trustee of the Stuart Hall Foundation and edited Hall's Selected Writings on Marxism for Duke University Press in 2021.
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